
Where Peace Is Lost
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Rebecca Mozo
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By:
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Valerie Valdes
A brand-new space fantasy novel from master world-builder Valerie Valdes! A refugee with a secret, a dangerous foe, and a road trip that could either save a planet or start a war.
Where peace is lost, may we find it.
Five years ago, Kelana Gardavros lost everything in the war against the Pale empire. Now Kel Garda is just another refugee living on the edge of an isolated star system. No one knows she was once a member of an Order whose military arm was disbanded and scattered across the galaxy. And no one knows that if her enemies found her, they might destroy the entire world to get rid of her.
Where peace is broken, may we mend it.
Kel’s past intrudes in the form of a long-dormant Pale war machine, suddenly reactivated. If the massive automaton isn’t stopped, at best it will carve a swath of devastation that displaces thousands of people. At worst, it will kill every sentient creature on the planet.
Where we go, may peace follow.
When two strangers offer to deactivate the machine for a price, Kel and a young friend agree to serve as their guides. The journey through swamps infested with predators and bandits is bad enough, but can they survive more nefarious dangers along the way? And will Kel’s fear of revealing her secrets doom the very people she’s trying to protect?
Where we fall, may peace rise.
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Great character development and easy to follow
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perfect!
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A very good story and an Amazing performance
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However, the writing is tortured and juvenile. There isn’t any coherence to the naming of people, places, or things. The personal journey seems a lot like freshman year in college, both in content and prose. And the narrator butchers the pronunciation of simple words, like cache and gunwales. The editor obviously missed it to
As curious as I am about the story, it was so hard to get through this one that I won’t be reading the next.
An OK beach book, I suppose
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Excellent story well told.
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A fun adventure
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Relatable Characters
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and this, by far, got the most screen time.
There’s uneasy alliances, redshirt death, and danger flirting that leads to fade to black romance. It was all at the YA cozy level. There’s one main character, Luna, who goes by ‘they’ and an occasional reference to preferred pronouns and gender identified by clothing colors. It never got too preachy and worked fairly seamlessly with the story.
As much as I enjoy a good cozy mystery, however, I like my military sci-fi more gritty. Or snarky, I could also go for snarky Firefly crews and heist capers. This had only a few snarky crumbs. There were a few crumbs about the single planet used as the setting, including a few crumbs about the society, vegetation, and alien animal life. And, there’s a bit more heft to the super-soldier pasts and talk of armor with wings. But nothing painted a sci-fi picture that captured my fascination. I’m still not sure if Kel was some sort of religious symbol, or just a really high level space knight.
I wanted The Demolisher to be scarier, like a giant robotic kaiju. I wanted a cool alien humanoid on the team. I craved an antagonist with menace, but only got Lazaran, a low rent thug in The Pale, working an extortion racket. I don’t regret the listen, but it was on the underwhelming end.
Might I get a second book? Perhaps if it too is offered on sale.
More likely, I see there’s a new Firefly out later this year, and that’s more my style.
Lots and lots of ruminating on war
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Slow and steady -- no edge of the seat
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excessive internal dialogue
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